How to own the Internet in your spare time: use KaZaA

“The ability of attackers to rapidly gain control of vast numbers of Internet hosts poses an immense risk to the overall security of the Internet. Once subverted, these hosts can not only be used to launch massive denial of service floods, but also to steal or corrupt great quantities of sensitive information, and confuse and disrupt use of the network in more subtle ways.” Same dish, different day. But with some different angles, including under the chapter titled “Stealth worms–contagion” an amazing mention of our no-longer-so-favorite P2P, KaZaA. Click here to read the paper.

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